{"product_id":"westward-the-history-of-one-american-family-from-jamestown-to-the-city-of-roses-paperback","title":"Westward: The History of one American Family from Jamestown to the City of Roses - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilda Alverda Ballard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLee J. Ballard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to be an American? Westward attempts an answer to that question by exploring the lives of common Americans from the founding of Jamestown to the Vanport, Oregon, flood of 1948. Based on the ancestry of the author's grandmother, Wilda Alverda Bowman Ballard, Westward follows one thread of the American tapestry back to the earliest English and German-speaking immigrants who braved the uncertain Atlantic Ocean in hopes of beginning new lives in North America. Moving forward to the time of the French and Indian War and the struggle for independence, Wilda's ancestors found themselves in the middle of bloody conflicts. They pushed westward into western Pennsylvania, the Shenandoah Valley, and the Old Northwest in the early nineteenth century. By the coming of the Civil War, they had begun to put down deep roots in the fertile soil of eastern Iowa. Finally, during the uncertain days of World War II, Wilda and her family made that fateful choice, as her ancestors before her, and moved further west to Portland, Oregon, where she built ships for the war and began putting down roots once again. This book contains the history and genealogy of the Bowmans, Heils, Goodwins, Snoebergers, Pooles, and Keisters who settled eastern Iowa in the mid-nineteenth century, and the Zooks and Gilliams who settle Ohio and Indiana in the years following the War of 1812. 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